Oklahoma Tornado...school kids...oh no!

[pinkfloyd1973]

Weather channel is now saying 30. 6 Children drowned in the school.


anybody else seeing this???

I'm watching it via WGN news link here in Chicago, very sad and devastating


http://wgntv.com/live/

[Liam]

Got Fox news goin' as well. Very sad.

[Rick]

Weather channel is now saying 30. 6 Children drowned in the school.


anybody else seeing this???

Yep. That's just awful.

[scarygirl]

How can they have drowned? OMG.

Weather channel is now saying 30. 6 Children drowned in the school.


anybody else seeing this???

[tater1977]

Search & recovery now at the school..Believed to be 2 dozen children to recover..

[tater1977]

51 now confirmed dead

[Liam]

Death toll up to 51

[artist4perry]

Scary thing...most schools are not equipped to handle a tornado of any strength. So sad for the families of the victims. There is no real safe place from an F5.

[Liam]

What blows my mind about the whole thing is that the damn thing was on the ground for 45 damn minutes.

[Rick]

My daughter went to school in Lake Worth, TX. The entirety of the middle school was built under ground. It was built during the cold war days and as such was intended for a nuclear fall-out shelter. I'm pretty sure that people who live in "tornado alley" are much more in danger of being killed by a tornado than they are from a nuclear strike. Yet they don't build schools to prevent such a disaster that was seen in Oklahoma City today.

I know you can't prevent everything, and maybe I'm just pissed that elementary school aged kids died today, but it does make you think about what could prevent something like that.

[The Sushi Hunter]

Death toll now being lowered. Media just making it as exciting as possible instead of getting the facts first.